Your story. Well told. Jim Beatty is a leading communications strategist with nearly three decades of experience. From the newsroom to the boardroom, Jim offers clear analysis, crisis management, government relations strategies and media training seminars. Counsel that works. Jim is a senior communications specialist with strong skills in strategic communications, crisis management, government relations and media training. As an advisor with international public relations firm Hill+Knowlton, he offered strategic counsel to a range of clients in health care, post-secondary education, real estate development, resource extraction and the charitable sectors. Earlier, Jim was an award-winning journalist with a long career in print and broadcast media. Over the course of 26 years, Jim worked for numerous news outlets in Ontario and British Columbia, including as Legislative Bureau Chief for the Vancouver Sun, Bureau Chief for CTV News and Chief News Anchor for CHEK News, Vancouver Island’s most-watched newscast.
Jim volunteers as a board director with numerous charitable organizations including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the Terry Fox Centre and the Robert Bateman Foundation.